Irish Water working in partnership with Cork City Council, are undertaking vital water network improvement works on the Douglas Road, Cork City, to ensure a safer and more reliable water supply to customers in the area.

These improvement works are being carried out as part of Irish Water’s national Leakage Reduction Programme. This is a programme underway to provide the community with a more reliable water supply, improve water quality, remove old damaged pipes from the water network and reduce leakage.

The works are due to take place for 5 nights from Monday 28 February through to Saturday morning 5 March. In order to safely and efficiently complete these works they will be undertaken at night and under a road closure as granted by Cork City Council in consultation with An Garda Síochána. The road closure will be in place from 7pm to 6am with the road re-opening outside of these hours.

Due to the location of the existing water mains and requirement to cross both lanes with excavations, closure of one lane to maintain traffic flows is unfeasible and therefore a full road closure is required.

The Douglas Road will be closed from the bottom of the Southern Road at the Infirmary Road/Old Blackrock Road/Langford Row Junction to the junction of the Douglas Road and Tramore Lawn. The recommended vehicular diversion will be via Langford Row, Summerhill South, Evergreen Road, South Douglas road to the turn for Tramore Lawn where traffic will re-join the Douglas Road. The diversion will be signposted on approach.